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A group of Britain’s biggest employers of engineers, including the bosses of BP, Shell, BAE and Rolls-Royce, has pledged to tackle the profession’s lack of diversity.

In a letter to The Daily Telegraph, a coalition of major technical employers said “we must address a lack of diversity in a workforce that is currently 92pc male and 94pc white”.

The signatories include BP chief ­executive Bob Dudley, Shell’s UK chairman Sinead Lynch and BAE’s new chief executive Charles Woodburn. The call, led by Crossrail chairman Sir Terry Morgan, is also backed by the heads of Network Rail and Transport for London, amid mounting concern that Britain is not training enough engineers to renew infrastructure. “It...